About Carlos
Carlos Roberto Moore was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972. He is an American citizen with no criminal record. His father, Charles Darren Moore, is a career police officer with the Philadelphia Police Department. His mother, Marisol Yara (Benigno) Moore is a registered nurse at Graduate Hospital. He is of Puerto Rican descent on his mother’s side but was not raised in Latino culture, did not learn to speak Spanish until his late 20’s, and self-identifies as Caucasian rather than Hispanic.
Upon graduation from high school, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corp and served in the Gulf War, where he attained the rank of Corporal. He worked as a “strategic corporal“, leading a four-man fire team, and for the Provost Marshal’s office (the Marine equivalent of military police). At the end of his single tour of duty in 1994, Carlos enrolled in Drexel University, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 1999.
He was recruited out of college by the Drug Enforcement Administration, and was assigned to a Mobile Enforcement Team (MET) dedicated to attacking and dismantling drug trafficking and urban violence in close cooperation with the United State Border Patrol and local authorities in Southern Arizona. As a rookie agent, he became involved in investigating the 2000 war between the Gomez and Montes De Ocas (MDO) families. When the Gomezes were wiped out of the drug trade, his focus became taking down the MDO organization. His dedication led to him crossing the lines of protocol on two ocassions, for which he was reprimanded. The MDO eventually set him up to violate protocol again, which led to his dismissal from the DEA in 2007.
Carlos was recruited by Michael Saavedra, a Gomez cousin, and now works as a mercenary for the Gomez polleros operation. This allows him to continue his war against the MDO, on the theory that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. His relationship with the Gomezes allows him to gather intelligence on the MDO, which he feeds to his contacts within the Border Patrol and Mexican police, and an ally in the DEA. His goal is to eventually regain enough face with the DEA to get his old job back.
Although Carlos is increasingly exposed to the supernatural, he remains a skeptic and always looks for the rational, mundane explanation of events. Much of this is because he know he can’t document these events in the case files he’s building on the MDO without damaging his own credibility, so he continually looks for a plausible spin.
